Secondary Sources Asia: Of Sanctions and Supply Chains

–Of Sanctions and Supply Chains: A law designed to monitor imports of conflict minerals from places like the Central African Republic has ended up revealing violations of U.S. sanctions against North Korea. The issue shows how complex it is to design sanctions regimes in the face of multi-tiered supply chains, Stephan Haggard writes.

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